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Topic Lesson 3: //**Off and Running**//

Common Core Standards RL5.1 Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text. RL5.3 Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story a drama, drawing on specific details in the text. W5.3b Use narrative techniques such as dialogue, description, and pacing, to develop experiences and events or show the responses of characters to situations.

Suggested Student Objectives 1. Students will compare and contrast characters in a story. 2. Students will make inferences and predictions. 3. Students will write a dialogue (point of view).

Suggested Additional Readings Literary Texts
 * __ Class __ __President__ by Johanna Hurwitz
 * __ Presidential Elections: Other Cool Facts __ by Sylvan A. Sobel

Resource Links www.congressforkids.net/Elections_electionday.htm
 * Students may use this site to learn more about elections in the United States:

Activities
 * ** Your Turn **, Student Book, page 85. Students will work with a partner and choose one of the activities: "What it Takes" or "Campaign Talk."
 * Help students understand the process of electing officials and the power of the vote by holding a mock election.

Assessments 1. Practice Workbook, pages 25- 26 2. Writing Rubric 1-4, see TE T201 and R18 3. Weekly Test 3.8-3.9

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